We rocked the Read-a-Thon!! Thanks parents, teachers, staff, and students for a terrific two weeks. And a special thank you to our Read-a-Thon committee and all our volunteers.

READING GOAL: 10,500 CHAPTERS OR PICTURE BOOKS
Our kids reached 13,240!! Congratulations to all our readers, and to all the classrooms meeting their class goals (your popsicle parties will be coming soon)!

FUNDRAISING GOAL
As of Wednesday November 30, we are just under $23,000 towards our goal of $25,000.

DONATIONS
We can continue to take on-line donations at any time. Hit the JustGive button on the right hand side of this blog page. Any cash or checks should continue to go into the Read-a-Thon Lockbox in the office.

Make checks payable to Flynn PTA. All donations are tax-deductable (Tax ID#56-2587473).

Please get all your sponsor money turned in as soon as you can, thanks.

Please let us know what you thought worked, and what didn’t work so well, during the Read-a-Thon this year. Your feedback will help in next year’s planning. Email Lindsay Sablosky, post a message at the Flynn Yahoo Group, or put a note in the Read-a-thon Lockbox in the office. Thanks!

Thursday, November 17

Here's part of our parent team working hard and having fun selling books at our Spanish language book fair. This is the first time we have hosted a Let's Read in Spanish book fair and it was a great success! Lots of beautiful books were bought by parents, teachers and visitors from our community and the other schools. And now Miss Lisa will have several hundred dollars to spend on Spanish language books too for the library and school.

Wednesday, November 16

Story time at Flynn. Monday morning. All over the school, lessons stopped and children listened quietly and attentively to our volunteer parents reading picture books, and chapter books, and poetry, in Spanish and English.

Tuesday, November 15

All around school, children are busily making paper chains. Each link represents a picture book or chapter read. Each grade has a different color. By the end of this week, the hallways of Flynn will look like a carnival!

Wednesday, November 9

A library full of children and parents listened with rapt attention this evening to Annie Barrows, author of the Ivy and Bean series and The Magic Half, as she read from her newest book in which the girls become obsessed with cheese or more particularly the wax around the cheese.

Tuesday, November 8

The Flynn 500 challenge! Can our kids write 500 books in two weeks? That's what our lovely librarian Miss Lisa has challenged them to do. Today was the writers workshop and lots of busy book making and writing was going on.

Each class in our school has set their own classroom goal. If they hit their target then they get a popsicle party. Our children are ambitious and love to read so their targets are high. The school is an elementary school, many of our children are just getting started as readers and there is a wide range of ages and abilities. All reading counts - parents reading to children, children reading to other children, children reading to themselves. Each unit is a picture book or a chapter in a chapter book and each unit gets a coloured link in chain. Watch this space for pictures of the chains hung in the school hallways.

And don't forget you can support the children by sponsoring them, buying raffle tickets, or donating here on the website via the JustGive button.

Monday, November 7

Our teachers will rock you! Our librarian will rock you! And our principal will REALLY rock you! We had a rockin' kick-off this morning. Best part comes now when the kids start rockin' and readin'! Go Flynn!